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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Beck's therapist?

2. Following the night at the bar, Beck and Joe exchange what?

3. What color is the cap that Joe takes?

4. How long ago did Beck's father die?

5. Following the night at the bar, Beck has trouble doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who interrupts Joe and Beck as they are assembling her bed? What is the outcome of this interruption?

2. Who is Candace and what does the reader know about her?

3. What information does Joe learn while at Beck's fiction reading?

4. What is the "cage," and where is it located?

5. What is the significance of the red ladle?

6. How does Joe help Beck during a dangerous situation?

7. How does Joe dispose of Benji?

8. What happens when Joe escorts Beck home after the night at the bar?

9. How does Joe meet Beck? What does Joe think about her?

10. How does the trip to IKEA help Joe's relationship with Beck?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent is Joe a sympathetic character? Explain the “likeability” of Joe’s character, using examples from the text to support your argument.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using a second-person point of view. How does viewing the second-person viewpoint affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through third-person narration?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Beck and Karen Minty. In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different? How do their similarities and differences highlight the novel’s themes?

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